From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from phoenix.infradead.org ([81.187.226.98]:45828 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263290AbUJ2L7E (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Oct 2004 07:59:04 -0400 Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 12:59:03 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: New kbuild filename: Kbuild Message-ID: <20041029115903.GC11391@infradead.org> References: <20041028185917.GA9004@mars.ravnborg.org> <20041028190020.GB9004@mars.ravnborg.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041028190020.GB9004@mars.ravnborg.org> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 09:00:20PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > kbuild: Prefer Kbuild as name of the kbuild files > > The kbuild syntax is unique and does only have very few things in common with > usual Makefile syntax. So to avoid confusion make the filename 'Kbuild' be > the preferred name as replacement for 'Makefile'. > No global renaming planned to take place for now, but new stuff expected to use > the new 'Kbuild' filename. Disagree. These are just makefiles, and renaming for the sake of it doesn't buy us. If you really want to improve things implement something like module foo.ko sources foo.c blah.c sources foobar.c if FOO_BAR in Kconfig and get rid of driver makefiles compeltely